if you take that if the if you make that landing japan what sort of a second explosion is reported in terms of buying there is of the possibility of a nuclear meltdown at the sixteen hundred people have now been confirmed dead after friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami but the toll is expected to rise to over ten thousand. this is our sea life from the russian capital on our top story now it there is reported to have been a second blast at the fukushima nuclear plant at a reactor also a new three metre high tsunami is moving toward the north east coast of japan with

authorities warning it makes try client shortly also as you say using seas water to cool down damaged reactors but in terms of crying tears of a possible nuclear meltdown plumes of smoke are rising from the power plant and at least twenty two people have already been affected by radiation after an early explosion following friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami also is either bennett is in sendai one of the towns worst affected by the huge way it's being advised to see one hundred thousand people have been in fact right now the threat of nuclear meltdown still remains very high though and which means that radiation could spread even more because two reactors now at the fukushima power plant number one have lost their cool insistent those have been knocked out and the temperatures inside the reactors are increasing having to relieve the pressure in some of the reactors by really letting out steam but with that comes radiation as well and so as a result twenty two people have been affected by radiation exposure they're being treated

now but local authorities yesterday they were saying that they fear that number could be much higher in the region around one hundred sixty on our way from tokyo to send but you're just twelve hours because. the roads around the nuclear power plant main highways going to be free areas they were shut off and we actually killed road chicot to go through checkpoints and only emergency vehicles were being allowed through they were got thirteen civilian traffic around the accusations only on cross-country routes bypassing the radiation exposure so now they're trying to call the call those reactors down that are overheating by company and sea water to them and the element all around because they have to cool inside probably had that was actually over one hundred degrees so it wasn't actually doing anything and it was just that i was being heated up by what was happening inside the reactor so what they need to do now is call the actors down but having real difficulty

something seawater in the end of the reactor is ultimately useless if they can stop them from exploding but here hundred kilometers away in sendai that's not the fear of radiation but the fear here is actually not the earthquake. japanese local media is saying that there's a very high chance of an aftershock raising a magnitude said to be a massive earthquake that started this catastrophe was magnitude nine so it's going to be a very powerful one if it happens next that to happen in the next three to seven days and i actually in the center here in the center there isn't actually any damage per se to the buildings that most of the damage is on the coast which will be heading to very shortly this morning i'm actually sitting inside one of the relief centers where i spent the wit and the night is that there's no formation in set in sendai the whole city with the way it's suffering is its infrastructure there's no electricity no power. no water and very little food jim it was very cold

last night inside here is eighteen floors and basically every single floor space is covered with lost last time it was covered with people bedding down for the night lying on sheets of cardboard about me two and a half long. given blanket's of the damage across countries the whole towns have been completely wiped out and the number of. actually keeps keeps rising eight hundred people alone. died in this prefecture where i am the worst hit me and he prefecture another eight hundred elsewhere in the country but there are three back could rise to ten thousand because in a pretty picture alone this one. has ten thousand residents still unaccounted for out in the sea this floating debris. may be ships that are sifting through very meticulously because they. could still find some survivors a sixty year old man was actually found in the last few hours flown seen on the roof of his house floated out to sea and used the next three days so there's still

a chance of finding survivors. i have a better reporting there and the breaking news this hour situation intensifies at the nuclear plant where a blast has reportedly occurred in that third reactor also a new three nisa height tsunami is moving toward the north east coast of japan with authorities starting to evacuate thousands of residents and meanwhile imagines the serves as a lead in russia's fire eastern region close to northern japan and we're now joined live by our correspondent there you could integrate your hello there you could seen it so there's a bit tsunami warning for japan which is close to the island where you are at the moment what's happening there. well you can do you want to have water and be repeating. your own money and knowing how do you think. anyone. can feel it can you hear it so it seems like do you know

changed and what are the conditions you will keep changing. we're not going to be in any reports of god and so not me and. i'll be getting many letters from the emergency ministry but what we see definitely changed dramatically from yesterday you know what bonnie on quote duty region i'm going to fly if you want me. to let it go and then you really need fill in the grave. and also you probably know that there's been a second blast of these plans how concerned are people in russia as far east about the threat of radioactive contamination. well i must tell you that we've been watching groups on t.v. here and work work for me in that the little things that are on the roster and in

some i'm thinking things from our human being from national cable networks and it seems that we speak one language and that's a much better updated on what is happening. in japan of the moment in the middle to computer game where you know there are many japanese korean and chinese here could hold the ball where we're seeing the long running national work chain and all the marching and all. and being have lost. you know municipalities before me we needed a brain when reading your last and yet we think you clock a minute here today and. every single one has come up to his party today and actually got a letter from time management team in anything that they should read out wrestling so the next forty eight hours all day. i mean a little bit of all of that all the brains and all the little cool i was actually not going to make because remember. how distorted. there are any

already acting or anything as of yet and i'm going to demonstrate i think we will click but i'm not ready for my little remain normal people kind of a lot about me or about me but now that we know that we're in the second explosion take six hundred miles away from here and see hundred modeling film now here. on one of the old days. people will be. people asking for their water and. what we measure of good luck to all of us and our girl with a great response. and. we don't read english and. you're not into the grid showing. more.

than the average you know any. ordinary beach. and i think i'm going to really i don't mean what planes flying. from the uk the great filtering out. of the moment. we're. really saying. you can't write your own from there really only carter thank you very much indeed let's leave it there at the moment we've got something else on our agenda. so crews are fighting to cool down the overheated fuel rods have been through a nuclear plant at the moment this is considered key to averting disasters that contain radioactive materials and christopher simons a professor of the total universe explains how an explosion might occur and the worst case scenario could mean for local residents. the damage to the fuel rods in

this case will not cause a fire and again this is a key difference between the disaster going on at the moment though it is a disaster and the charitable incident this situation is a few rods can melt they can become oxidized and the rods are protected by zirconium alloy coating and when it comes into contact with water the result is the production of a large amount of hydrogen which is of course explosive and that causes that a large explosion as we saw yesterday whether the radiation is coming from fukushima daiichi reactor number one or number three or more locally is a very important question to sort of i would hazard to guess that it is coming from fukushima daiichi number one and now there are different types of radiation being released into the atmosphere the good news is that a lot of the steam which exploded in the explosion from day to reactor number one

building yesterday is relatively light isotopes and these isotopes cannot really cause the long term damage to human health the more serious problem is that they have also detected isotopes of iodine and cesium in the area around the fukushima explosion these are much heavier isotopes and that means that if they get into the human body or if they get into the soil rather supply they can cause long term radiation poison and. and breaking news this hour there's been another reactor blast a big fukushima nuclear plant also knew three need to hide tsunamis moving toward the northeast when he's closed with authorities warning may strike client shortly and artie's either better joins me live from japan hello there i bet so if you are not far away from the fukushima nuclear plant what has happened is that. that's right around a hundred kilometers. we just. but this explosion took place

in the reactor the. nuclear power plant number one but three actually. last twenty four hours that we watched. very good exposure just we don't know the full extent of the damage there yet but. it's. still. got so so i guess. the question there is. probably will try to fix that problem shortly and bring you back bring either back to you but let's move on for a moment pledging to stand shoulder to shoulder with talk it during the crisis a plane carrying russian rescue workers it's heading to pile with another g. to take on the country's far east on monday and there's

a nuclear test explains russia is no stranger to dealing with the nuclear threat facing japan having first hand experience of the world's worst atomic disaster during the soviet era a playing field trip down memory lane alexander often goes to the thirty kilometer chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine but every visit south emotions twenty five years ago what is now the gold star of his home before the chernobyl fallout changed everything. you know i didn't come here just to take photos it still feels like home i spent my best chance good years here i like to see here and even those who have never been here before come and feel the car. so they want to come back here. alexander is one of hundreds of thousands whose address changed after april the twenty sixth one thousand nine hundred eighty six. is one of the

kids youngest districts in the late one nine hundred eighty s. houses sprung up here literally overnight many of those who had to leave their homes in the chernobyl area found their home here a total of three hundred thousand people had to be resettled from the contaminated blood and this new life came at a high price for some reason the soviet authorities meddled with the evacuation from the contaminated zone fifty thousand people residents the town just three kilometers from the exploded reactor were subjected to a great deal of radiation the town's former deputy mayor says this dreadful mistake was caused by a mass confusion which followed the blast. of those who asked the question don't quite understand what it takes to evacuate as many as fifty thousand people you simply can't do it in one hour or in two hours but we brought thirteen hundred buses here from here we had to inform people bring them together and in the first place we had to understand whether we actually needed the evacuation even

specialists in the first stages didn't know whether the reactor was destroyed a quarter of a century since the disaster the thirty kilometer area around the plant is a nuclear wasteland the fall are period for radioactive particles is believed to last several thousand years so this land would hardly ever be inhabited again however some like this elderly man were not put off by the radioactive threat and decided to return after the soviet union collapsed. when i was moved to here they gave me a fly. and a miserable pension not enough to make a normal living that's why we returned home is here and we. decided nowadays more people come to the cosmos but all the time really stop and bring you some food money. as the news of a nuclear incident at the fukushima plant in japan broke out the first thing the authorities did was to evacuated residents within dream to kilometers off the

facility twenty five years ago people of the affected area were less fortunate the reaction of the japanese government suggests that the lessons of chernobyl have kids later been learned let's see russia s.q.r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. and again breaking news this hour there's been another reactor blasted the nuclear plant also new three meter high tsunamis moving toward the northeast japanese coast with authorities warning may strike land shortly and now we are able to bring about parties i've about it from japan so i bet you're not far away from that fukushima nuclear plant and of course you've heard about a second blast and what more can you say about that. we don't know the full extent of the damage a second blast in the third reactor at the fukushima power plant number one the initial reports are. the actual reactor. containing the radioactive material damage that japanese media to. explosion was. surrounding the

reactor has collapsed and the explosion was caused as a result of a buildup of. reactor which is because of a great deal of. temperature buildup of temperature. that builds up a cloud i think it's very explosive because the. full extent of the damage we don't know how much radiation is. either but it's if the vessel itself is intact which it seems to be according to japanese media that it's not the full scale nuclear catastrophe that was feared earlier today but again we don't know the full extent of the radiation levels which but as soon as it was reported on japanese radio as soon as i heard it in the taxi i was coming back from the coast. immediately afterwards the advice was to stay inside where a hundred kilometers. or.

it's going south and north but the radiation if it is escaping will be blown they sliced it this way city by city stay inside but just half an hour ago we were. seeing people destruction and the devastation that's there as a result of the first tsunami when we actually got told by police there we got shouted out and ordered to drive back to safety as soon as possible and to retire ground because there were reports of another tsunami approaching we didn't know how long we had but the first tsunami only took nine minutes to reach the coast after the first earthquake so there was panic there and the police were people out fast as possible reports of a tsunami making it so we had we were allowed to say this is the road safety and so we don't know what's happened there but on our way back towards town here in

sendai which is only around seven kilometers away. are several groups and also several. yeah we were also hearing about the tsunami which is moving towards the country what's the weather like there. it sounds like it's very windy there what's going on . there that's a concert now that we. get. for is good for me so. i will ask him again sorry we apologize for that south course we'll try to bring him back again shortly and as we've heard earlier there's been another explosion of bifurcation many complex in northeastern japan and dr robert jacobs from the peace institute says that the

twenty kilometer exclusion zone around the fukushima reactor and they need to be expanded. claims of the japanese government at this point is that the radiation that they want to get our reactor are not coming from that the reactors at that site but are actually from fukushima number one from the explosion at fukushima number one so this is boring as well because if this is true this would indicate that the radiation from fukushima has reached quite a distance from the plant itself the claims are that the radiation levels were high and then went down and this would correspond to the timing of the explosion in fukushima but as i say seeing as how the evacuation area has been ten fifteen twenty kilometers away if in the next prefecture of radiate measurable radiation was present then obviously radiation is spreading beyond the it actually in an area that is on the other side of the bay from sendai it's north of sendai whereas the

fukushima site is south of sendai so that would be quite a distance that would certainly indicate that if it did travel that far that there was bound to have been measurable radiation in sendai city itself i think that there's a very conflicting reports coming out on the one hand you have the japanese government claiming that there was some melting of the fuel in the number three reactor at fukushima number one site and you say you also had reports that they are they were in error when they said that that any of the fuel had melted i don't there's two possibilities obviously one is that dire information is being withheld in an effort to make the situation seemed better than it is and also to avoid panic but the other perhaps more likely scenario is that the government is not quite certain of the state of affairs in the reactors and so you're finding conflicting reports coming out from different spokespeople but either either scenario certainly suggests the situation is far from under control. prime as it had earlier there's

been another explosion at their physician a nuclear complex in northeastern japan in a while crowds out fighting to encourage the fighting to cool down the overhauled of the fuel rods that they've because shimon nuclear plant has got it at a pizza advertising disaster as they contain radio as they contain radio outs of materials and christopher pyne is a professor at the talking about the text brains how an explosion like a car and or the worst case scenario could mean for local residents the damage to the fuel rods in this case will not cause a fire and again this is a key difference between the disaster going on at the moment so it is a disaster and the charitable incidence the decision ration is the furor it's can melt they can become oxidized and the rods are protected by zirconium our lloyd coast and when that comes into contact with water the result is the production of a large amount of hydrogen which is of course explosive and that causes the earth

a large explosion as we saw yesterday whether the radiation is coming from fukushima daiichi reactor number one or number three or more locally is a very important question to solve i would hazard to guess that it's coming from fukushima daichi number one now there are different types of radiation being released into the atmosphere the good news is that a lot of the steam which exclaimed in the explosion from the ancient reactor number one building yesterday is relatively light isotopes these isotopes cannot really cause the long term damage to human health the more serious problem is that they have also detected isotopes of iodine and cesium in the area around the fukushima explosion these are much heavier isotopes and that means that if they get into the human body or if they get into the soil with water supply they can cause long term radiation poisoning. well this is actually thanks for water now we're able to bring

back i have about it from japan now i have a can you hear me. all right fantastic so let's let's let's carry on now tooled so what's the mood among people is there any panic at the moment there. well here in sendai i did. open a can actually on the coast where we were just about half an hour ago when there were there were the warnings of the. need tsunamis are approaching the case we don't know how long we had to get out i don't we have to move very very fast but in the sense we know we face here from the tsunami threat here right here the panic here being shown by people lining up outside supermarkets one key we saw part of the main street market in the center of town was so long that's no exaggeration people have been queuing up overnight to try and stock up on food so people are obviously concerned that potentially the spread of radiation might mean they have

to spend some time to or not the earthquake or it could lead to food shortages already there are food sources in town and in this whole prefecture in fact. yesterday we may have to travel seventy kilometers the stock up on food and. right now several of the food shortage the limiting people to five points from maximum and then having to queue up hours it's time to get into the shops so obviously there is some level of panic people on showing it. on the surface but they're definitely concerned because so much so they have been stocking up on food and also fuel on our way here yet last night we saw a long queue of cars again of course long long outside one of the few petrol stations that were there were open in the fukushima prefecture and there only being limited to twenty liters of each of you to different speeds of these here have been affected right right and how are the all sources dealing with the

situation are they preparing people somehow. the authorities. army troops and police took a police even as well lining the streets and going to the coast beheading people are saying people can't make their way we were trying to get to film pictures will be with them a station caused by the tsunami three days ago and every foot of two hundred meters or so they were police pulling private thing out and to go back and as soon as they heard of the warning tsunami they were literally shamming up chasing us back to the fence and they were police buses picking up independent. who were on foot and other people who would come back to find their houses and try and retrieve what they could. stop calling their tsunami only now find that they will remain the police what banks left to anyway. yeah

and of course you are in one of the cities was affected by the tsunami how serious is the damage that and how are people coping with all that said the moment. when the damage is absolutely complete. you don't get a real feel for until you actually see it until you actually get to the coast but it's worth it area. the tsunami completely wiped out everything in its path it's very clear that it came reached a clump of eden and it's just been nine minutes for when the earthquake it must be an absolutely incredible force as we wiped out three buildings there were cars floating in or appeared to be an inland sea it's absolutely devastating you don't really understand it in print really rely for power the much you must do for we will be until you actually see these pictures and we saw people think through or see the remains of what once their house there were both as well and beaches.

being washed up they've been prompted inland where you know very clearly the damage is far. inland around that there are a few buildings damaged in the sense of the p.p.p. things puncturing pretty much the same as normal consumption in the infrastructure see you know are these the on the roads that are going to run their operations the trains are still not out of fears of aftershocks and eventually another tsunami. right all of a ben is reporting live from japan ivan thank you very much indeed for that report . filed a new blast of the fukushima nuclear plant occurred at reactor number three according to latest reports the hydrogen glaus did not damage the reactors container bus and the number of workers have been injured and jimmy has continued to poor seawater into the reactor to cool it down and also

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